This is a read me file for “Bringing the New Votes: Turnout of Women after Enfranchisement“. The file contains all the material needed to reproduce the results reported in the paper and the online appendix.

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Software
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All do files were confirmed to work using Stata 17. In addition, the Stata programs “coefplot” and “booteest” are required.

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Files Contained
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1. README.txt
	
This file.

2. data_raw.xlsx

This is an Excel spreadsheet which contains all raw data used in all analyses. Each sheet in this file refers to a different data set used in the paper and the online appendix. The first sheet in this file, `data description’, describes all data sets, its source and adds explanatory notes where relevant.

3. data_build.do 

This is a Stata do file that builds all data sets in Stata for analyses in the paper and the online appendix, using the raw data in data_raw.xlsx.

Note that the commands need to be run consecutively to ensure that data sets generated in earlier commands can be used for later commands.

The following data sets are build in this do file:
        *nor0918.dta replicates Figures 2a; 3; a4a,b; a10b,c; a11b,c; Tables a1; a2; a4; a5; a17
	*nor0918_red.dta replicates Figure 5a; Table a7
	*nor2127.dta replicates Figures 2:4; a4c; a9b,c,e; a10f; a11f; Tables a1; a3; a6; a17
	*nor2127_red.dta replicates Figure 5b; Table a7
	*nor_coxfivasmith.dta replicates Figures 6; 7; a5; Tables a12; a13; a14
	*norovert.dta replicates Figure a3
	*nor0906 replicates Figure a8
	*nor2127_district replicates Table a10
	*nor09_munic replicates Figure a11
	*nor15_munic replicates Figures a8; a11
	*nor18_munic replicates Figure a9a,d
	*nor09_ad.dta, nor15_ad.dta replicates Figure a7
        *nz.dta replicates analyses using election data from New Zealand 1905, Figures 8a; a10a; a11a; Tables a17; a18
	*swe.dta replicates analyses using election data from Sweden 1920-1921, Figures 8b; a10d; a11d; a9; Tables a17; a18
	*aus.dta replicated analyses using election data from Austria 1927, Figure 8c; a10e; a11e; Tables a17; a18
	*tingsten.dta replicates Figure A1
	
4. analyses_paper.do

This is a Stata do file that replicates all analyses (Tables and Figures) in the paper. 
Replicating any analysis in the paper requires that either Stata data sets are generated as above (see data_build.do) or .dta files in Dataverse are used (see `dta’ files)

5. analyses_appendix.do

This is a Stata do file that replicates all analyses (Tables and Figures) in the online appendix.
Replicating any analysis in the appendix requires that either Stata data sets are generated as above (see data_build.do) or .dta files in Dataverse are used (see `dta’ files)

4. `dta’ files

All generated Stata data sets that are used for replication analyses are uploaded to Dataverse. 

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How to replicate results
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There are two ways to replicate all analyses.

1. Generate all Stata data sets using data_build.do and data_raw.xlsx and then run analyses_paper.do to replicate analyses in the paper and analyses_appendix.do to replicate analyses in the appendix.

2. Use generated .dta files uploaded to Dataverse and then run analyses_paper.do to replicate analyses in the paper and analyses_appendix.do to replicate analyses in the appendix.


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Contact info
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Please contact Mona Morgan-Collins (mona.morgan-collins@kcl.ac.uk) for any questions about the replication files.

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Mona Morgan-Collins
Mar 31, 2023




